Study: Daily coffee might jolt memory

Dose of caffeine may make recollection 'more permanent'

2:06 AM,
Jan. 14, 2014

Coffee cup on a wooden table.

Written by

Mary Brophy Marcus
| HealthDay

Swarms of morning commuters clutch cups of coffee to kick-start the workday. But a new study suggests caffeine might do more for the brain than boost alertness - it may help memory too.

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University looked at caffeine's impact on memory while excluding its other brain-enhancing factors. The study showed that caffeine enhances certain memories for up to 24 hours after it's consumed.

"The finding that caffeine has an effect on this process in humans - the process of making memories more permanent, less forgettable - was one of the big novelties," said study author ...